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Laura Walsh
1st Grade - Harding Elementary - Kenilworth, NJ
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I'm Laura, a first grade teacher who loves music and art and being with my friends and family, especially my husband and baby boy!
http://www.kenilworthschools.com/kenilworth/Harding%20Elementary%20School/Classes/First%20Grade/Mrs%20Walsh/


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5 Technologies To Try
  • delicious.com
  • Garage Band to have students read books
  • Storylineonline.net
  • Social Networking
  • Google Docs
4 Ideas to Share With Others
  • No one knows how much a student will grow physically in a year. Why do we think that we know how much they will learn?
  • Edumoto is a way that we can keep in touch with our families that is similar to our class webpages but also includes the social networking aspect.
  • Create assessment with the end in mind...what do you want your kids to be able to demonstrate?
  • We can work across grade levels in order to give greater access to technology to our younger learners.
3 Principals of UDL
  • multiple means of representation
  • action and expression
  • engagement
2 Changes to Your Teaching to Reach All Learners in the Digital Age
  • Get more fluent in edumoto and launch it for our classroom community
  • I want to use Poll Everywhere to create graphs based on student response.
1 BIG idea to implement on Monday
  • We can use technology to work more collaboratively as a first grade team.